"But... We are very far from Kyuketsu, even if we fly we wouldn't get there in time, my flight is weak" Zurie says worried.
"But we have an alternate route" Doraemon takes the Anywhere Door out of his pocket, opens it to show the entrance of the Vasilescu Castle.
Zurie is surprised to see how in a moment they were already in front of the entrance of the castle, the guards were there and noticed the presence of the young vampire. "There is the young Vasilescu!" says one of the guards
"He should be inside, the ceremony has already started, Lady Mara and Donovan reported that he had disappeared, surely those children have something to do with it, catch them!"
The 6 of them seeing that more guards were approaching, panic and fly away. "Are they confusing us with vampire kidnappers?! Oh, come on!" says Suneo upset
"Wait, they didn't kidnap me, actually we have to go in to warn my cousin about...!"
But the guards don't pay attention to Zurie and try to catch them, so they have no choice but to fly and hide in the bushes of the main garden of the castle, even the little vampire had to do it, the guards mobilize and one uses a radio. "Attention to the guards of the exteriors and hallways of the castle, the young Zurie appeared along with what looks like 4 humans and a rare raccoon, it's possible that they are accomplices of Scarlet Moon and have brainwashed the young man and have him in their power! Those of the hallways, prevent them from entering the throne room and those of the exterior, help us look for them, over!"
When the guard was leaving, Doraemon comes out of the bushes about to yell at him that he wasn't a raccoon, but Shizuka and Suneo quickly grab him to make him go back into the bushes so as not to be discovered. "What fools, they don't want to listen to us!" Gian hits the ground annoyed "We were so close to achieving it!"
"It makes sense that they're so upset, they're probably on the lookout for any Scarlet Moon ambushes at an event like this and are drawing their own conclusions." Zurie sighs tiredly. "This has complicated everything for us..."
Nobita notices a large screen at the top of the castle and looks out to see it, his eyes light up as he sees Selene being focused on in the throne room, while Donovan was giving the pre-speeches before the symbolic event, he also notices that another elder of the council had the necklace on a pillow next to the princess.
Zurie looks at his mother in a beautiful dress looking from one side to the other worried, surely for him, while his brothers were yawning bored, all were in Victorian-Gothic style gala suits, his uncle was also looking at Selene worried about her.
The silly boy saw the sad look that Selene showed, which filled him with sadness too, he knew from his cousin that she was like that because they weren't only forcibly separated before time, but they forced her to hypnotize him so that he would forget her. He wanted to go there and tell her that he was there, that he remembered her and that he was going to protect her, he wanted to stop them from putting the necklace on her, the others look out to look.
"Selene..." Nobita says with pain in his chest seeing her like that.
"Poor Selene, you can tell she's very sad" Shizuka says worried.
"I hate seeing someone so pretty and sweet with that expression of pain" Suneo exhales just as sadly
"We have to go there and help her, I can't keep seeing her like that!" Gian growls in rage.
Zurie looks at Nobita "You are my cousin's first friend, you are the one who should meet her, she needs it more than anything, and my mother already knows you because I told her about you and your friends and she already saw you on Earth, surely they will hear you about the necklace. The throne room is on the second to last floor where the biggest doors are."
Nobita nods decisively, Doraemon takes out a ray gun, the invisibility cloak and the super gloves and gives them to him "Zurie is right, as I said when we found Selene on Earth: She trusts you. We are going to distract the guards, anyway it's possible that they can detect you with how upset they are even being invisible, so be careful when flying."
"I can't believe what I'm going to say but yeah, you have to go first, Nobita" Suneo smiles
"We are going to prevent them from bothering you so you can pass. Don't mess it up, huh?" Gian smiles with his thumb up.
Shizuka sighs but smiles anyway "Go Nobita, she needs you, you're both friends who need to see each other at times like this, but promise me you'll be careful"
"Guys" Nobita tears up smiling but wipes his tears and takes the gadgets "Sure, I'll be careful"
The boy puts on the gloves, puts the gun in the inside pocket of his long jacket and puts on the invisibility cloak and with the takecopter he flies straight to his destination. On the other hand, the others attract the attention of the guards and are chased by them.
"Did you find Zurie?" Lady Mara had moved away from the event a little to talk to a guard, she was visibly surprised but then she smiles relieved "Thank goodness. Where is he?"
"She's wandering around outside the castle with some humans and a strange raccoon, it's possible that they're from planet Earth according to what happened with the princess when she ran away, don't worry Lady Mara, we're already after them" says the guard.
"Oh... Okay, but those guys..." At that moment, applause is heard, the speech had ended and Donovan was preparing to put the necklace on Selene, Lady Mara gets nervous "W-we'll talk later, it's the most important moment for my niece and I must be present, I'll talk later with my son and those humans"
The adult vampire approaches the event while breathing deeply, Selene just closes her eyes while waiting for the final step of her ceremony.
At the same time Nobita was flying with the takecopter quickly. "It must be there." The boy thinks as he sees some large doors in the distance where some guards were guarding him. If they were protecting it like that, it must be the right place.
...And the clumsy action characteristic of the silly boy couldn't be missed when he passes near a chandelier, doesn't avoid it and brushes against it a little, accidentally removing the invisibility cloak, drawing the attention of the vampires guarding the door.
"Hey! How did you get in?! It must be one of the intruders, go get him!" A guard shouts.
"How come they are watching me?!" Nobita looks at himself letting out a big "Oh." The guards fly towards the boy who gets scared when he sees how they were going to fall on him but remembers the gloves on his hands. "Oh right, I forgot I had them!"
Nobita smiles at the sight of the gloves but then puts on a serious and determined face "Don't worry Selene, I'm almost there"
Inside the throne room, Donovan takes the necklace in his hands, as he was wearing gloves, the altered ceremonial necklace wasn't harming him "...And now to all of you..." Vampires everywhere; on the streets, in their houses and in the hall itself were excited for the final step.
"...I Donovan, leader of the Vampiric Council of Kyuketsu, Amarant..."
Both Count Caleb, Lady Mara and her children who were better off paying attention to something else out of boredom were present, Selene just sighs sadly as Donovan stood behind her about to put the ceremonial necklace on her.
"...By the power thrust upon us, the vampiric council and the tradition of Amarant, I officially declare you, Vasilescu Selene, as the new Queen-"
"SELEEEEEEEEEEENE!"
Needless to say, the little vampire's eyes lit up when she heard the scream of someone she was missing too much. Everyone in the room turned to see how the double door was knocked down after a couple of knocks thanks to the super gloves. Nobita was breathing deeply as he descended to the ground right at the entrance.
Those who hadn't yet met the human boy were confused by who had entered, both those present and those watching the broadcast of the ceremony. Even the group from Earth who were distracting the guards watched everything through the giant screen outside the castle.
"Nobita" Selene began to tear up looking at her friend again, she thought she was dreaming, but he was there, not only that, she also remembered her. She realized at that very moment that what happened yesterday wasn't a hallucination, he was really there and now he was present at her ceremony.
Donovan just arches his eyebrow in annoyance and was going to put the collar on Selene, but she raises her hand in denial "Wait, not yet, I want to go see him." Although he didn't like it, the old leader had to obey and back away with the collar.
Both the human and the vampire were again face to face as in their first meeting.
"S-Selene!" Nobita takes a few steps forward but feels something slam him against the ground, it was a guard who had neutralized him along with the ones the silly boy had previously pushed aside with force. "Hey!"
"Princess, my lord, Sage Donovan, don't worry, this human intruder and his friends had young Vasilescu hostage, but we already neutralized this one and we're after the others!"
"What are you doing?! Nobita is my friend from Earth, I demand that you release him!" Selene says that angrily with red eyes.
"But princess, we can't do it, he could be dangerous and..."
"Then I demand that you release that human, NOW" Count Caleb's passive-aggressive words make the guards jump and the little vampire rejoice. The guards look at each other and step back, the one holding Nobita against the ground releases him and does the same as his companions
The silly boy tears up smiling as he slowly gets up. Lifting her dress a little so she can run well and not trip since it was long, Selene runs towards the boy and he does the same. "Selene!"
"Nobita!" The platinum girl tears up with happiness and with a small jump runs to hug her friend. "I can't believe it, you're here, you're really here!"
The human boy is surprised to be hugged like that but with the same enthusiasm he hugs her, both were happy to see each other again, he closes his eyes smiling. "Yeah, I'm really here"
"Nobita, you remember me right?" They both separate and the human nods.
"Of course, I remember my friend from Amarant very well" The clumsy boy smiles as does the platinum girl
"So it's him without a doubt, my moonlight has smiled again. I'm very glad" Count Caleb smiles nodding for the moment.
The other vampires didn't understand anything, but seeing the touching meeting they only became touched, others asked about the mysterious boy and friend of the princess.
"Thank goodness he was able to avoid having the necklace placed on her" Suneo exhales in relief, the guys from Earth watched what was happening on the giant screen, although in the end they ended up being caught by the guards, who had them tied by the arms including Zurie because they thought he was hypnotized, but it didn't matter anymore because their friend had managed to interrupt the ceremony for now.
"I hope that with that they don't want to put us in prison or something like that" says Gian growling at a guard.
Shizuka looks at the screen as the pair of friends smile at each other, she sighs and smiles too "But I'm so glad Nobita managed to find our friend"
"It really was a good idea to send him first, Selene would stop all this just to see the first friend she made on Earth again" Doraemon smiles and nods.
"Anyway, let's let the guards take us, it's risky but I think we won't have to run away anymore" Zurie sighs in relief
Zurie's older twin brothers in the throne room were yawning "About time something happened, I was getting bored of all the ceremony" Kaige says
Locke puts his arms behind his head "Yeah, and the dwarf isn't here to distract us, thank goodness they interrupted this, it's obvious humans are fun"
Lady Mara was startled at the scene but still smiles "Well then I think I'll take advantage of the fact that Mr. Grumpy has to deal with one more guest to look for Zurie, he has to be present for this"
The adult vampire steps back a little leaving the room through a back door, which Nobita notices and makes a long face, Selene looks at him confused. "Is something wrong Nobita? Better said. How did you get here?"
"Oh, uh, your cousin brought me and my friends along, it helped us remember you, I couldn't miss your ceremony" The boy winks at her "I even dressed up for the occasion. Although I feel a little hot with this on up to my neck"
The boy with glasses sighs tiredly pulling on the collar of the gothic Amarantian clothing he was wearing, the vampiress laughs softly seeing him do that, she missed talking to him "Well, for me, the Amarantian style suits you very well, you should wear it more often"
Nobita scratches the back of his neck smiling carefree and grateful for the compliment, they both look at each other and laugh together in the middle of the great hall in front of everyone's eyes, but now they didn't care about anyone but the other. The friends from both worlds who missed each other, were able to see each other again now in a different environment.
Even with everything that was happening around them, both the human and the vampiress needed at least a moment for the two of them.